On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> > >
> > > if you have almost nothing in /root it's not a problem.
> > >
> > > but i still don't see any adventage of having /root world readable.
> >
> > If you're putting something secret in /root, you're probably doing
> > something wrong...
>
> could you please write more about it?

It's very simple. On large, multi-user systems, "root" is typically a
shared account, with a shared password. On one-user workstations, its
not an issue, either. What do you have in your /root that's such a big
secret, and from whom?

Frederick